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AU: Mr. Chairman?
<br />IWASHITA: Mr. Chair?
<br />WOODWARD: Commissioner Au.
<br />AU: Commissioner Iwashita can go first. I actually have another question, totally different
<br />question.
<br />IWASHITA: No, go ahead.
<br />AU: Okay. Well, now I want to talk about the motor bike track issue. Okay, it says right here
<br />you had a complaint; and I think staff should comment on this too. What form did the complaint
<br />come in? And, you know, on 20 acres if you’re using your vehicles for work purposes, you
<br />know, pulling your crops and whatever, you need to use these vehicles. But if you’re getting a
<br />complaint from a neighbor or whoever, whatever form this complaint is in, you know, you must
<br />be using these for your tourists, for your people and -. Is that, I mean why did this complaint
<br />come in -- and I don’t have a copy of the complaint -- and what is this all about? All it says is
<br />there’s a complaint alleging that you have created a neighborhood disturbance. So can you talk
<br />about that?
<br />YEH: Okay.
<br />AU: Or if you want to stay on this same subject but -?
<br />YEH: To the extent if I can answer, that complaint, I’m not sure what the genesis of it is. Cause
<br />we never found out who it was, and what they had heard, and where it was really coming from.
<br />Because there is, as you know, a lot of farm machinery in the area that’s used by the Withers as
<br />well as other properties. But I’m going to back up a little bit now cause you’ve kind of gone into
<br />another area that I think is maybe for another day, maybe not. But Mr. Withers is actually kind
<br />of like a, I think he’s a seven-time world champion motor cross. -. In fact he just came back
<br />from Mexico at the end of last year with the world title. He had not actually been practicing on
<br />this property, which he does on occasion, even at the time that that complaint had come in. So
<br />what we did is responded to the Planning Department on their complaint and we showed them
<br />photographs taken right after the complaint was done showing how overgrown the area was, that
<br />there were no tracks. On this issue, the discussions that I’ve had with the Planning Department
<br />is, is that, as you’re probably aware, in Ag lands, open area recreational users are not required to
<br />have a permit. What they’ve try to do is when he does practice, and he hasn’t yet, but when he
<br />does he tries to be sensitive, not during evening hours, on weekends. That’s basically it. But
<br />that complaint did not really have a justification, cause that activity hadn’t occurred on his
<br />property, and there are no people coming up paying or anything like that, absolutely not.
<br />AU: Okay, well, my response to, I mean, my question to the applicant is, okay, you know, the
<br />only reason why this came about is because of this compliant. If it wasn’t for this complaint you
<br />guys would have gone about your business for another 20 years. Okay? So, you know, that’s
<br />why the Planning Department is putting in conditions. You know, they go in to investigate the
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